>>I have a app that resides on the server. Each client might have 6 printers availble to choose from over the network. Usually, none are local printers. What does PRINTSTATUS() check?
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>It doesn't do anything. It's an old DOS command that doesn't work under Windows. It always returns Ready.

But it does work, in its own way - it is supposed to say whether the printer is ready to accept a job. Since under Windows you always have an active spooler, it will always be ready (to accept it - actual printing is a different matter). It worked the same under DOS if it was printing through any sort of networked or local spooler.

It's a different story that we can't use the result for anything useful :)